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| Basic information | Name: Kansas University This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1900 Country: United States Mass:  2.8 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12331 approved meteorites (plus 8 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 81:
Kansas University Kansas, USA, possibly near Lawrence Found in early 1900s, recognized 1990 Ordinary chondrite (L6) A 2.8 kg stone was found by H. T. Martin, the former Curator of Paleontology at the University of Kansas while searching for fossils. Classification and mineralogy (D. Schneider, P. Benoit, D. W. G. Sears, and S. Symes, UArk): olivine, Fa26±2; shock stage S3; meteorite has fresh fusion crust. Specimens: type specimen, UArk; main mass, William H. Martin, Jr. | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
UArk: Cosmochemistry Group, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, United States (institutional address; updated 16 Oct 2011) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 81, MAPS 32, A159-A166 (1997)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 147 approved meteorites from Kansas, United States (plus 1 unapproved name) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1894 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||